ietf-nntp Draft summary of IETF 48 meeting

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Aug 17 13:56:32 PDT 2000


Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Given a subject header containing the sequence "-->" NEWLINE TAB "<--",
> (see message-id <87ya1v8y5p.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> in alt.dev.null)
> the results are:

> INN 1.7.2+insync, tradspool:

> xhdr subject 3619
> 221 subject fields follow
> 3619 header fold test -->  <--

wireformat turned off?  If so, the CR is probably getting stripped early
which explains the difference between that and:

> INN 2.3.0, probably CNFS:

> xhdr Subject 111
> 221 Subject fields follow
> 111 header fold test -->   <--

this one.

Hm.  Everyone else appears to collapse into a single space.  If that's the
consensus, we can certainly change INN to match.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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